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HiddenLayer · 8 hours ago

Platform Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

5+ years exp

HiddenLayer protects the world’s most valuable technologies from adversarial AI attacks. The Platform Engineer will take ownership of deploying and managing the multi-prem platform architecture, ensuring operational excellence across diverse customer environments, and collaborating with engineering teams to maintain secure deployments.

Cyber SecurityMachine LearningSecurity

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead deployment and lifecycle management of our multi-prem platform across commercial cloud, bare-metal, air-gapped, and IL4+ environments

Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, etc.) to automate consistent deployments across customer sites

Ensure our customer-hosted builds (“shrink-wrapped” software) remain closely aligned with our continuously deployed SaaS platform

Maintain and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container build pipelines (EKS, K0s, AKS, or on-prem distributions)

Implement secure and reproducible container image build pipelines, aligned with our internal release processes

Collaborate with Engineering teams to harden deployments for regulated, classified, and air-gapped customer systems

Document and version deployment patterns, templates, and procedures to support both automation and accreditation workflows

Support incident response, troubleshooting, and upgrade cycles across multiple platform footprints

Contribute to the overall architecture and evolution of the multi-prem reference design, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security parity with SaaS

Qualification

Kubernetes orchestrationInfrastructure automationMulti-cloud environmentsSecure CI/CD pipelinesLinux systems maintenanceNetworking conceptsCompliance frameworksSupply chain securityAI/ML backgroundDistributed systems architecture

Required

U.S. Citizen (required) and eligible for U.S. Government clearance (Secret or higher preferred)

Proven success deploying and operating complex systems across multi-cloud and on-prem environments

Deep hands-on expertise with Kubernetes orchestration, container pipelines, and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD)

Strong foundation in networking concepts: DNS, routing, VPC design, VPNs, firewalls, and service meshes

Proficient with secure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Experience maintaining Linux systems, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenSearch), and automation tooling

Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD SRG, or NIST 800-53

Preferred

Active DoD Secret or Top Secret clearance

5+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering

Experience deploying workloads into AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or other regulated cloud environments

Experience deploying and maintaining software in classified, air-gapped, or disconnected environments

Knowledge of supply chain security (SLSA, SBOM, image signing, provenance)

Background in AI/ML or data-centric security platforms is a plus

Familiarity with Temporal, Kafka, or distributed systems architecture

Experience maintaining multi-tenant platform parity between SaaS and customer-hosted versions

Benefits

Fully Remote: We are a completely remote global team. Though we’re distributed, we are intentional about getting the team together a couple of times a year. We offer a generous stipend for your home office setup, annual upgrades to ensure you have a comfortable workspace and a monthly stipend for internet/phone expenses.

Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits: Better than your average startup healthcare benefits. With five options to choose from, of which are fully subsidized by HiddenLayer, we offer a variety of options to fit each person’s needs. We also offer vision, dental, and 401k offerings.

Flexible Time Off: Enjoy unlimited and flexible time off for all salaried employees, in addition to 15 paid company holidays.

Commitment to Learning and Development: We support personal growth and education through a dedicated L&D fund that can be used for training, conferences, certifications and industry events.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: We are committed to building a diverse team with individuals from various backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.